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Had to go looking, but I found the image this comment is in reaction to.
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It's a cartoon from "Liberation" newspaper in france, and the caption is "Ramadan in Gaza" (published just after the hunanitarian aid blockade and famine crisis started in Gaza, for which Israel is now being accused as an act of genocide)
The woman in a hijab is slapping the hand of an emaciated Gazan chasing after a rat, presumably to catch and eat it, and saying "Not before sunset"
It's a pretty openly Islamophobic joke about Gazan's starving during the month of Ramadan where muslims traditionally fast from sunrise to sunset.
I don't think it should need to be said, but even orthodox Muslims recognize exceptions to fasting during ramadan for starvation and bodily injury.
Pretty sure that's the joke. It'd be real absurd if a cartoon acted otherwise.
The joke only works if the reader holds the Islamophobic view that Palestinians were starving because their faith forbids them from eating, and not because Israel was starving them by blockading humanitarian aid.
Nah, that's the commentary. If "starving because of religion" is a silly fabrication, what's the reality?
Israel wants them dead or gone so they can have their land.
Religion is what they use justify their lack of humanity, but its simple greed and depravity that motivates them to abandon it.
Exaclty, it's not a complicated cartoon
Strange way to evoke Israel's motivation to starve Gazans by pointing to the religion of the victims.
True! The absurd misdirect almost makes the joke clever, in an underwhelming kind of way. Bit of a groaner really
lmao, the thing you're insisting is the subject of this cartoon is literally not present in it.
You're right. If you don't see it, it's not real. I can't change that.
Go ahead and point to the character in the cartoon that's meant to represent israel. I'll wait.
I don't understand why you act like an authority on the author's message if you can't see Israel's presence in the bombed out landscape, the dead under rubble, and the starving men, women, and children.
You said yourself, these are Isreal's crimes against gaza and its people. If you really need labels and caricatures, maybe ben garrison is more your speed.
Even in the most charitable reading, Israel's atrocities are only the backdrop to what is objectively about Arab Muslims and Islamic practices specifically
It isn't israel slapping the hand of a starving Gazan, it's a Muslim woman in Islamic dressings.
You dont have to be the author to see that they've left israel out of this drawing
Sure, only have to be dishonest or ignorant to disconnect the circumstances from their perpetrators.
Bud, that is literally what the cartoon is doing, Jesus christ.
Good job for seeing past the cartoon i guess but you're hallucinating commentary that isn't there lmao.
This is like when Musk thought the 'machine' in 'Rage Against the Machine' was supposed to be communism lol
That's fine. If you don't understand how Israel affects Gaza, I can't make you.